The subject of politics : Slavoj Žižek's political philosophy / Henrik Jøker Bjerre & Carsten Bagge Laustsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jøker Bjerre, Henrik.

Contributor:

Laustsen, Carsten Bagge.

Series:

Philosophy insights.

Philosophy insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

*The Subject of Politics* provides a new study of Slavoj i ek s political philosophy. Focusing on the combination of psychoanalytic theory and philosophy, the book offers an overview of i ek s analysis of contemporary society. In five chapters, the reader is introduced to i ek s method, his view of the political impasse in the postmodern world, and his suggestion for a way ahead to renewed action and political invention. Rich in examples, the book gives an engaging and entertaining tour around the landscape of i ek s political endeavour, while at the same time insisting on a more systematic and piecemeal approach than the Slovenian tends to offer himself."

Contents:

""Licence and Use ""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""A Note on the Authors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Lacanian interventions: Psychoanalysis as a theory of society""; ""The unconscious""; ""Back to Lacan""; ""Discourse analysis or critique of ideology""; ""You remind me of Emmanuel Ravelli!""; ""Chapter 2. The ideological fantasm: Zizek's sociology""; ""We know very well""; ""The mirror stage as critique of ideology""; ""Fetishism as a political form""; ""The two sides of the social bond""

""Chapter 3. A world out of joint: Zizek's diagnosis of contemporary society""""The fall of the Father""; ""Nationalism and ethnic conflicts""; ""Multiculturalism and racism""; ""Terrorism and 11 September""; ""Chapter 4. The revolutionary subject: Zizek's ethical and political horizon""; ""I think not, therefore I am""; ""The Proletarian""; ""It is the economy, stupid!""; ""Postmodernism as the new ideological superstructure of capitalism""; ""St. Paul on the barricade""; ""Communism, of course!""; ""Chapter 5. Did somebody say totalitarianism: Zizek's critics.""

""The rebellion against the father""""Passions of the real""; ""The useful idiot""; ""Bibliography""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-52645-6

9786612526459

1-84760-169-3

OCLC:

697474313